Piled Higher and Deeper (thing)

A comic strip about graduate student life started by StanfordMechanical Engineering student Jorge Cham, and starring quasi-fictional grad students Cecilia, Tajel, and Slackerney. The strip debuted in The Stanford Daily in 1997 and is now entering its sixth year of publication. Recently, Cham has come out with a collection of the first five years of strips and the strip has been picked up by other papers around the nation.